The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 15
But the young King noticed that Trusty John always missed one door, and said: “Why do you never open this one for me?”
Who acts: young King, Trusty, you · What happens: notice, miss, say, not open · To what, where: one door, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young King, Trusty, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 noticed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 King | amod |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 noticed | nsubj |
| 5 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 missed | mark |
| 7 | Trusty | Trusty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 missed | nsubj |
| 8 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Trusty | flat |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 missed | advmod |
| 10 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 noticed | ccomp |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 door | nummod |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 missed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 noticed | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 open | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 open | punct |
| 18 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 open | advmod |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 open | aux |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 open | nsubj |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 open | advmod |
| 22 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 one | det |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 open | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 open | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 noticed | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | the young King | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | miss | past | Trusty | one door | always property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the young King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not open in a quote | present · do-support | you | this one | for the young King = king | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/41/15/